CHEXO #11

Friday 17 of May 2024, 9am - 5pm

STScI, Baltimore

Registration

The Chesapeake Bay Area Exoplanet Meeting brings together all lovers of exoplanets and related science from the DC area and beyond. This series of one-day meetings enable the sharing of ideas in an informal setting with the focus being on building collaborations and expertise.

CHEXO meetings are held at locations in DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia. The next meeting will be hosted by Space Telescope Science Institute.

Registration

May 14 2024 UPDATE : we reached maximum in-person capacity and closed the registration form.

The 11th meeting will be hosted by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). In keeping with the spirit of the Bay Area Exoplanet and the National Capitol Area Disk meetings, there will be plenty of time for discussion and building collaborations. We are soliciting contributed talks, with a special focus on talks from students, post-docs, and visitors. Since we plan have these meetings several times a year, we hope that everyone that is interested will be able talk about their current research.

DEADLINE for abstracts: April 15 2024

Registration

Agenda

To preserve large breaks and social interactions we scheduled twelve 15-minute talks (including questions) are scheduled as well as many 1-slide/1-minute lightning talks. For last minute changes please check this table.

9:00 Breakfast

10:00 Welcome - Julien Girard & Josh Lothringer (STScI)

Session #1

10:15 Long baseline optical interferometry of exoplanets and brown dwarfs - William Balmer (JHU/STScI)

10:30 Paths to Robust Exoplanet Science Yield Margin for the Habitable Worlds Observatory - Chris Stark (GSFC)

10:45 Lightning talks #1 - Surnames A-E

11:00 Coffee Break

Session #2

11:15 Tell Me How I’m Supposed to Breath with No Air: A search for atmospheres on M-dwarf rocky exoplanets with JWST - Erin May (APL)

11:30 Investigating the Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks: Do We Expect Birth Order to Affect the Size and/or Composition of Giant Planets? - Dana Anderson (Carnegie)

11:45 Lightning talks #2 - Surnames G-M

12:00 Lunch

Session #3

13:30 Characterizing Low Mass Cold Exoplanets with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - Sean Terry (GSFC)

13:45 Spectral Characterization of the YSES-1 Multi-Planetary System with JWST - Kielan Hoch (STScI)

14:00 What are the First JWST/NIRSpec spectra revealing about Young Brown Dwarfs? - Elena Manjavacas (STScI)

14:15 New insights into the internal structure of GJ 1214 b informed by JWST - Matthew Nixon (UMD)

14:30 Lightning talks #3 -Surnames O-Z

14:45 Coffee Break

Session #4

15:15 How HWO's Field of Regard Will Impact Scheduling Observations of Precursor Science Targets - Corey Spohn (GSFC)

15:30 Resonant and Ultra-short-period Planet Systems are at Opposite Ends of the Exoplanet Age Distribution - Stephen Schmidt (JHU)

15:45 JWST Coronagraphy of Debris Disk Systems: Early Results and Lessons Learned - Kellen Lawson (GSFC)

16:00 Directly imaged systems at mid-infrared wavelengths with JWST - Mathilde Malin (JHU/STScI)

16:15 Goodbyes - Josh Lothringer & Julien Girard (STScI)

16:30 Happy Hour Location TBD

5:00 Finish

Live Stream

Live Streaming

For those who cannot come in person, the meeting will be streamed and recorded via The STScI Research YouTube channel.

Lightning Talks

For anyone who submitted an abstract but wasn’t selected for a talk, we would love for you to give a quick 1-minute, 1-slide introduction to you and your research (in lieu of a poster session). We’ll have 3 of these “lightning talk” sessions spread throughout the meeting, with enough time for everyone who submitted an abstract to introduce themselves. These will occur before breaks to facilitate follow-up discussion. To participate, just upload a 1-slide PPT file before May 17th with the filename format “Lastname_title.ppx” to the Box folder given on the CHEXO Slack.

Venue & Parking

The CHEXO#11 meeting venue is the Bahcall Auditorium located in the Steven Muller Building. If you will require parking at the Institute, you can park at the San Martin Garage Center (also referred to as the Valley Center Garage), located approximately 1/4 mile south of STScI on San Martin Drive. When you enter the garage, take a ticket from the kiosk and park in any space marked "Reserved STSCI Parking Only". Take your parking ticket with you to the meeting/workshop. Upon arrival to STScI, exchange the ticket you received from the garage kiosk for one from the STScI security/front desk in the main lobby. Give the name of your meeting when you exchange your ticket. You will need the STScI ticket to exit the garage without incurring a fee.

No prior parking arrangements have been made as of yet so we encourage folks to carpool (there is a #carpool channel on the CHEXO Slack.

Food & Coffee

Breakfast & lunch will be provided by Carma’s Café through generous support by the STScI Director. Breakfast and lunch are purposefully long to give folks plenty of time for socializing, discussion, and collaboration (or even a walk around campus). Vegetarian options will be provided, but if you have other dietary restrictions, please let us know ASAP. There is also rumor of a happy hour afterwards (location TBD) for those who’d like to keep the good times rolling (or who just want to wait out the rush hour traffic...).

Institutional Points of Contact

Julien Girard and Joshua Lothringer (STScI) - Chairs for this meeting

Alan Boss, Peter Gao (Carnegie Science)

Sally Dodson-Robinson (University of Delaware)

Kristin Sotzen (Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Lab)

Peter Plavchan (George Mason University)

Dana Louie, Avi Mandell (NASA Goddard)

Markus Alfred (Howard University)

Kevin Schlaufman, Guangwei Fu, Sam Grunblatt (Johns Hopkins University)

Eliza Kempton (University of Maryland)

Angie Wolfgang (Penn State)

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